Need an addictive read for your next trip? We asked our favorite authors (including Lesley Lokko and Erin Morgenstern) to name one mesmerizing book that got them through multiple time zones.

In Meg Wolitzer's lovely, wise The Interestings, Julie Jacobson begins the summer of '74 as an outsider at arts camp until she is accepted into a clique of teenagers with whom she forms a lifelong bond. Through well-tuned drama and compassionate humor, Wolitzer chronicles the living organism that is friendship, and arcs it over the course of more than 30 years.
—Abbe Wright, O's assistant books editor